Tennis

Athletics

The poor economic climate has led to a big increase in sports federations buying airtime to show their top events.
Tennis

Fifty broadcasters around the world will show the tennis’s Masters series this year.
Tennis

US network NBC acquired the rights for tennis’s French Open and is close to signing a new deal for the Wimbledon rights.

Baseball

Spanish Primera Liga football club Atletico Madrid opted out of its collective-selling deal with other clubs to sign a €52m (£34m) deal with Audiovisual Sport, the rights-pooling company for pay-opera-ors So…
Basketball

Football: Portuguese DTH platform Meo, owned by telecoms firm PT, acquired the high-definition rights to Uefa’s Euro 2008 tournament in a sublicensing deal with commercial channel TVI, which holds the r…
Football

Sportfive valuation at £604,000 per match is double the amount broadcasters claim they will earn in ad revenue
Curling

Curling: Canadian public-service broadcaster CBC has reportedly agreed a six-year deal with the Canadian Curling Association.

Snooker

After opening three rounds, viewing up 30 per cent on last year
Athletics

Danmarks Radio accused of not fulfilling its role as a public-service broadcaster
Cricket

Celtic unions were worried that switching to commercial broadcaster would have placed into doubt BBC coverage of Autumn Internationals
Football

Football: UK commercial broadcaster ITV said that it was interested in acquiring a package of eight live Premier League matches a season from satellite broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting as long as the…
Athletics

Poland's TV4 purchases rights - BMW, Allianz and Castrol pay the fee
Athletics

Football rights to be used to transform cable entertainment channel into a sports channel
American Football

Football: German sports agency Infront did not take-up its €595m (£412m) option for the Deutsche Fussball Liga rights for the 2004-05 and 2005-06 seasons, failing to reach agreement over price. 
Cricket

Football: French pay-broadcaster Canal Plus acquired the exclusive live rights and a highlights package for the French football league in a three-year deal

Tennis

The acquisition by German sports channel DSF of the exclusive live rights for the Wimbledon tennis championship from next year is a further indication of the way in which public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF are withdrawing from coverage of the sport.
Tennis

Tennis’s French and Australian Opens are facing the strong possibility of significant cuts in their European television rights fees.
Cycling

Belgian commercial channel VT4, owned by SBS Broadcasting, is setting up a sports department